nbsp nbsp nbsp I have followed carefully the work of Mark Lynas on environmental issues for some time I remember from his 2004 book High Tide The Truth About Our Climate Crisis a telling juxtaposition of photographs with one Lynas father a geologist took in the early 1930 s of a glacier

nbsp nbsp nbsp The thirty-second annual Paul Wattson Lecture named after the founder of the Graymoor Friars was held Feb 27 at the University of San Francisco The Wattson lectures on whose board I serve always stress issues of ecumenism to honor the man who also inaugurated the annual we

Tuesday s decision of the three judge panel for the Ninth Circuit court which covers the western states of the United States declaring California Proposition 8 as unconstitutional still leaves many murky issues about the constitutionality of same sex marriage The 89 page decision endorsed by two

I had occasion recently to write a longer essay on measuring the comparative well-being of nations which will appear in a Dutch-Flemish Jesuit journal Streven Many may know that the two Nobel economics laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Armartya Sen joined others in preparing a document for France s

I saw Alexsei nbsp Fedorchenko s extraordinarily lovely if melancholic Russian-language film Silent Souls on the same day i attended a funeral for a fifty-five year old Down syndrome friend nbsp the brother of a good friend Eulogies at funerals rarely touch me much but the four given for Jimmy

I was given as a gift a copy of Michael Casey s Fully Human Fully Divine Ligouri Press 2004 by someone whom I meet with regularly in spiritual direction He claimed he found the book a remarkable resource for his own prayer and reflection Casey a Trappist monk in Tarrawara Australia i

I was given as a gift a copy of Michael Casey s Fully Human Fully Divine Ligouri Press 2004 by someone whom I meet with regularly in spiritual direction He claimed he found the book a remarkable resource for his own prayer and reflection Casey a Trappist monk in Tarrawara Australia is

I finagled an invitation from Governor Jerry Brown we had known one another in high school and for the brief time he was a Jesuit seminarian to attend his by invitation only conference on extreme climate risks and California s future held Dec 15th at the Academy of Science San Francisco The

Tennessee Williams was born March 25 1911 in Columbus Mississippi the grandson of an Episcopal rector he moved north to Saint Louis at seven when his itinerant shoe salesman father Cornelius got a job there in a shoe factory Years later Williams father yanked Tennessee then called Tom fr

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The Jesuit playwright Bill Cain S J has been on quite a roll It had been almost twwnty years between Cain s first play Stand-Up Tragedy and his next Equivocation which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2009 and then went on to productions in Los Angeles